ABSTRACT
And after that theEord was pleafed to blefs mee in my imployment that following year, with more then ordinary fuccefs, by which the Devil was proved a lyar.
But afterward I had fome fears, that my imployment might be a fuare unto mee (as the world is to many) and that 1 should bee too earthly in it , for this Scripture did follow mee very much, ( which I defire to giv e good heed unto) Ob 1 Earth, Earth, hear the word of the Lord. And often in prayer I did cry unto God, faying, fpeak Lord, forthyfer* vant defires to hear; and was very defirous to know, what the .Lord., would have me to underftand by this word*, and when I had confidered I found fome thing in my imployment finful , and a hinderance unto my fpiritual injoy ments, to convince mee of which, theLord wa< pleafed to with hold his bleffing upon that imployment, which before I had found therein % to the convincing and converting of fome to himfelf, fo finding fomethinginit contrary to his w ill, I was conftreined toleaveit o f, and after much feeking of the Lord for councel, thefe Scriptures were mucii with mee, Math. 7 :7 . Asl^ , and it shall be given you 1 feek ^ and ye shall find: &ock*, and it shallbe opened unto you.
